“The California state budget breaks a record, tops $220 billion, but we also have to remember California has a staggering number of homeless people compared with the rest of the country,” said Mathis. “The homeless population last year was almost 130,000, nearly a quarter of the national total, federal data showed. Homelessness is also a more visible part of life in California. A vast majority of its homeless people are unsheltered, living under freeways, in parks and on the street.”
